Label mounting for stamps or printing blocks and the like



Aug. 15, 1939 F. R. STEARNS LABEL MOUNTING FOR STAMPS OR PRINTING BLOCKSAND THE LIKE Filed July 15, 1938 INVENTOR. fimmali 6/20/776 ATTORNEYSPatented Aug. 15, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE LABEL MOUNTING FORSTAIHPS OR PRINT ING BLOCKS AND THE LIKE Application July 15, 1938,Serial No. 219,371

1 Claim.

This invention relates to improvements in label mountings for stamps orprinting blocksand the like.

The main objects of this invention are to provide an improved labelmounting for printing blocks or stamps and the like in which the partsare retained in assembled relation without the aid of glue or adhesive.

A further object is to provide a label mounting in which the label iseifectively clamped by the retaining means so that it is not likely toslip out of place in the handling of the stamp or printing block orother part on which the label is mounted.

A still further object is to provide a structure which can be deliveredto the user with the label retainer on the block or support and thelabel easily inserted and the retainer pressed down into clampingposition with the label.

Objects relating to details and economies of the invention will appearfrom the description to follow. The invention is defined and pointed outin the claim.

A preferred embodiment of the invention is 25 illustrated in theaccompanying drawing,v in

which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective View of a printing block or stamp embodying thefeatures of my invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary transverse section.

Fig, 3 is a fragmentary perspective view illustrating one of the stepsin the assembling of a label with the block and its retaining element.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary perspective view illustrating a succeeding stepin the assembling of a label.

Fig. 5 is a perspective View of the combined label cover and retainer.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a label designed to be used with theretainer and block.

In the embodiment of my invention illustrated, the supporting block I isof the hand stamp type and a type being conventionally illustrated at 2.This block has an inclined face 3 having inwardly converging slots 4therein of substantial depth, these slots being in the form of sawkerfs.

The label cover and retainer 5 is of channel cross section and comprisesthe web portion 6 of a width corresponding to the width of the face ofthe supporting block between its kerfs and converging flanges l of asubstantial width and normally disposed at an angle to each othervarying substantially from the angle of the slots relative to eachother. The result is that when the flanges of the retainer are forcedinto the slots they are placed under clamping and frictional stress withthe walls of the slots and the web portion is bowed inwardly slightly asshown in Figs. Band 4 so that it is effectively clamped and it is inretaining engagement with the label 8.

In sending these out to the customerthat is, preparatory to receivingthe label which of course bears the appropriate legend, a filler strip 9is inserted under the retainer so that the user may pull out this fillerstrip, leaving a space III in which the label 8 may be readily insertedand the retainer then pressed down onto the label as shown in Figs. 1and 2.

The distorting of the flanges to enter the slots also distorts the Webportion of the retainer with a result that there is an efiectiveresilient clamping action upon the label, and the retainer is at thesame time very effectively retained in the mounted position.

By inserting the filler strip 9 prior to sending out to the customer, itis not necessary for the customer to remove the combined label cover andretainer from its support, but the filler strip may be pulled out, thelabel inserted, and the retainer pressed down to seated position asshown in Fig. 2.

I have illustrated and described my improvements as embodied in a handstamp or printing block but it will be understood that they are capableof embodiment in various relations.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

In a label mounting, the combination of a supporting block provided witha face having inwardly converging substantially spaced kerflike slotstherein, a label of a width approximately that of the spacing of saidslots, and a label cover and retainer of transparent resilient materialof channel cross section and having inwardly converging relatively wideflanges engaged in said slots, the angle of the flanges relative to eachother normally being substantially more convergent than the angle of theslots relative to each other so that when the flanges of the retainerare inserted in the slots of the supporting block the flanges of theretainer are deflected from their normal position and placed underclamping frictional stress with walls of the slots and the web portionof the retainer is bowed inwardly into clamping stress with the labelarranged upon the face of the holder between the slots.

FREEMAN R. STEARNS.

